Austin, TX News Reports and Accidents

APD officers are responding to a crash involving a train and a pedestrian near the area of Fair Oaks Drive and Calais Court. The 1600 and 1700 blocks of W Stassney Lane are currently closed both ways. Read More

The Austin Fire Department reported that they were responding to a vehicle rescue in the area of Old Lockhart Rd. and E Slaughter Ln. at 10:18 a.m. on Sunday. They stated that multiple ... Read More

Two people were trapped and rescued after a multi-vehicle crash in Southeast Austin. Four people, including a child, were injured. Read More

An overnight crash in South Austin injured seven people, including three children. The crash happened in the 10000 block of Menchaca Road, near Slaughter Lane. The injured were taken to area hospitals ... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas - Austin lawmakers are putting a proposal in motion ... connecting Dallas to Austin to San Antonio along interstate 35. "The interconnection of these major hubs that we are all traveling ... Read More

If toll road Texas 130 were extended south to intersect with Interstate 35, every 18-wheeler traveling from Laredo to points north would use it. This would reduce traffic on I-35 by at least one ... Read More

The city is also home to the University of Texas, Austin, whose 52,000 students ... Designated as east of I-35, west and south of Highway 183, and north of Riverside Drive, East Austin is a welcoming ... Read More

AUSTIN (KXAN) - A Bastrop ISD school bus was involved in a ... It is unclear what led to the crash, which occurred near the intersection of Highway 71 and Blue Flame Road. '?We would like to express ... Read More

A proposal more than a decade in the making could bring additional toll lanes to the MoPac Expressway in South Austin.Kevin Velandia drives on the MoPac Expressway every day."It is pretty frustrating, ... Read More

AUSTIN (KXAN) - High-speed rail could be coming full steam ahead to the Interstate 35 corridor amid new bill filings from Texas lawmakers pushing the initiative. State Rep. John Bucy III (D ... Read More

The celebrity look-alike frenzy is in Austin. The contest at Auditorium Shores on Sunday gives fans a chance to imagine a Glen Powell encounter. Read More

Eight years after a little girl's body was found inside a suitcase along a Texas highway, authorities are releasing a new facial reconstruction image in hopes of finally learning who she was and what ... Read More

A two-vehicle collision early Wednesday morning caused traffic delays on US 290 near Mopac in south Austin.The Austin Police Department said the crash, reported ... Read More

Austin Police identified a pedestrian in a deadly crash that happened in north Austin in August, the agency said Monday in a news release. Read More

Sure, I get that people who say these cities are growing closer mean to say that the development along the Interstate 35 ... rail service linking San Antonio and Austin. But if South and Central Texas ... Read More

A Comal County man has been sentenced to life in prison for his sixth DWI. FOX 7 Austin's John Krinjak spoke with the prosecutors of his case about why they believe that the punishment fits the crime. Read More

SEGUIN, Texas - Austin Street in downtown Seguin has been reopened to traffic, about two hours after a trash truck released it's trash load onto the street after it caught fire Friday. Seguin police ... Read More

Officials say a South Austin man's vehicle was burglarized by the same men who would later be arrested in Lee County following a robbery and high-speed chase. Read More

Austin police are looking for a vehicle they say struck and killed a female pedestrian in Southeast Austin last Sunday evening. Read More